Suspect · Accused
Al Capone
- Born
- 17 January 1899
- Died
- 25 January 1947, aged about 48
- Record
- Wikidata Q80048 · Wikipedia
Suspect in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Head of the rival Chicago Outfit; widely believed to have ordered the killings but never charged. He was in Florida that day.
1929–1931 · 2122 North Clark Street, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois · Unsolved
Seven men lined against a garage wall in Chicago, 1929. Gunmen dressed as police. Capone blamed by everyone, charged with nothing. Nobody was ever tried. Read the case.
Accused in The Capone Tax Trial
Boss of the Chicago Outfit; convicted on five counts of tax evasion and failure to file, and sentenced to eleven years.
1931 · Federal Building, Chicago, Illinois · Convicted
Chicago could never convict Al Capone of murder. In 1931 the Treasury got him with a lawyer's letter, a bookkeeper's ledger and his own grocery bills. Read the case.
Dated events
Chicago civic leaders meet President Hoover, who orders federal agencies to concentrate on Capone.
The bodies of Capone gunmen John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, both arrested after the massacre, are found with that of Joseph Giunta.
Ralph Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
Capone is convicted of contempt of court for evading a grand jury subpoena and sentenced to six months.
A grand jury indicts Capone for evading tax on his 1924 income.
Capone pleads guilty, expecting a sentence of two and a half years.
Judge Wilkerson says he is not bound by the bargain, and Capone withdraws his plea.
The jury finds Capone guilty on five counts and not guilty on the rest.
Wilkerson sentences Capone to eleven years in prison and $50,000 in fines plus costs.
Capone is taken to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta; he is moved to Alcatraz in August 1934.
Capone, weakened by syphilis, is released on parole.